Hallways Are Scary

Think of a horror movie you have seen. What elements made it scary? Chances are, there is a villain or a murder or a supernatural element that makes your skin crawl. For me, it is the long hallways that put me over the edge. In "Halloween" the characters run down the long halls of the hospital, away from Michael Myers. In "The Shining," the little boy runs into twin dead girls in the hallway when he is on his bike. To this day, I cannot look down an abandon hallway without imagining the girl from “The Ring’ crawling toward me. Whenever I see a long abandon hallway, I can tell something scary is going to go down. In "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been," many of the scenes take place in the hallway. We aren't sure if someone is going to come around the corner or pop out of a room, and that is what kept me of the edge of my seat. It may sound silly, but have you ever had a bad dream where you are running from something down a long hall and every single door is locked, and you can't escape? PRETTY freaky. At one point in this episode, Angel is being accused of murder and gets bombarded in the narrow hallway. He has no way out and ends up getting hanged. (Apparently, back then everyone carried around nooses.) Being in a narrow hallway can get very claustrophobic and when blended with a murder mystery or a ghost, makes a very uncomfortable and scary situation.